"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. . . ." Please, Mr. Bird, look in the mirror before you write this stuff. I can't count the times I have asked you to do something that was a simple execution of what you said you were doing already, but a response from you turned out in effect to just continue bitching, you use your own word. I have warned you privately, now I will warn you again in public, if you don't DO something in the way of actually constructing new or improved eBooks and send them directly to me, I will stop what I have been doing to to protect you from yet again being off list with nowhere here to send your comments. Is there really any content in the message below besides bitches? Please. . .after all this time some CONSTRUCTION. . .please. . .! Michael On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
any time amazon does a press-release, the crackpots come out and try to throw rocks. it's become an amusing thing to watch.
the fact of that matter is that those press-releases are fraught with legalistic landmines. look at the "forward-look statements" fine print included at the bottom, which is required by the s.e.c.
i'm quite sure they think about what they say, and spin it in a way that makes it sound as good as they can, but i'm also sure it's true. because the cost of saying something false -- even technically so -- is just too damn high. it just might get you sued, class-action wise.
and, as jim points out, amazon says that e-books are kicking ass _across_the_board_. and that sounds rather unambiguous to me.
further, if amazon was saying something that was materially untrue, don't you think the publishers would call them on it? i'm sure of it. after all, the publishers know the actual numbers on all these claims. and they're actively looking for a way to take amazon down a notch...
yet none of them are disputing what amazon says. indeed, when the last press-release was issued, publishers confirmed that it was true...
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oh, and yes, some books from p.g. are being sold (or given away) on amazon. we have discussed this before. and if p.g. wanted to, p.g. could offer those books _itself_ and knock out the knock-offs.
but nobody here has stepped up to do that. y'all just wanna bitch. and until you get up off your asses and _do_something_, nothing will change.
-bowerbird